Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that [noun pl] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments . |
| 2 | The moment I got back I realized that things had changed . |
| 3 | But there , too , I found that things had changed . |
| 4 | Nesting nearby in holes in the boulder were a colony of puffins , and I probably imagined that these Icelandic birds looked larger than those nesting in Shetland , because I knew that studies had shown this to be the case . |
| 5 | I thought that members had raised |
| 6 | She knew that members had to fornicate and kill a child to gain entry . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's not a bad man , ’ the girl said , and there was a slight tremble in her voice ; she knew that things had gone wrong for her father , and that there would soon be a time of parting . |
| 8 | She said that doctors had offered to participate in developing the programme but had been told they were not needed . |
| 9 | From this time , we began to build up pressure on the Department , first on a weekly then on an almost daily basis , until eventually we heard that ministers had decided to fulfil the undertakings in the guardianship deed . |
| 10 | First we felt that women have come a long way given the very radical and novel nature of their demands to enter public life as individuals in their own right . |
| 11 | Four clutches where we suspected that hosts had ejected cuckoo eggs before we detected them ( as judged by the damage of host eggs ) were excluded from calculations of the number of cuckoo eggs per nest . |
| 12 | More of them thought that changes had occurred in administration , with more paperwork and more meetings being the most frequently mentioned aspects . |
| 13 | They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order . |
| 14 | Commentators analysing the results said that they showed that voters had rewarded the NSF for its efforts over the past six months , had opted for gradual change , and supported a political grouping which showed far greater coherence than the fragmented opposition . |
| 15 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 16 | Furthermore they concluded that farmers had used this political power to prevent new employment in order to keep farm wages lower , and to keep rural council house building rates at a minimum so as to keep farm workers tied to their cottages . |
| 17 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 18 | He found that Christians had stood firmly by their faith and practice ; only one family had lapsed , and that had been very weak , even in the best of times . |
| 19 | With so many memories already jostling in his mind , it seemed that weeks had passed since the killing . |
| 20 | He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry . |
| 21 | But he added that voters had fallen for the ‘ Labour lie ’ that voting Labour would result in a Labour victory in the UK . |
| 22 | He allowed that others had proposed the Roman synod and the revision of the Code of Canon Law . |
| 23 | It meant that heads had to discuss with governors and parents as well as with staff precisely how to make use of greater freedom . |
| 24 | Even the prince was n't particularly pleased , he said that times had changed , there was n't going to be a place any more for the likes of him ( he detested United Italy ) . |
| 25 | Hakluyt was exaggerating when he said that Englishmen had excelled all the nations and people of the earth in their explorations , but he was quite right when he asked : |